|
With all the crap being slung about whether a certain segment of our population will necessitate the changing of the English language with respect to referring to permanent or semi-permanent relationships, I have been teetering on the edge of self-control. It seems like at all times I'm just seconds away from launching into tirades. God help the next person who makes the mistake of broaching the subject with me.
SO I decided to vent a little steam here, so that whenever that does happen I don't explode too violently.
See, here's the thing... all these people are getting all wound up over marriage, and it just absolutely blows my mind that this is happening. I guess these people don't feel the same sense of outrage over little things like millions of children in the world who are: dying of easily curable diseases; losing their parents to AIDS, prison, or WHATEVER reason; losing hope for the future and largely giving up on life; joining the ranks of the homeless or uninsured; living in poverty; etc, etc, etc, etc...
And THESE jokers get riled about GAY MARRIAGE?!
Do they even freaking READ the GD bible? Or the Torah, Koran, or whatever? Ever do an ethical / moral inventory on their priorities these days?
I swear to God I want to set up a soap box on a corner and start screaming at these lost souls as they file out of 'church'! What would Jesus do, they ask, but they don't seem to know or want to know.
I was born and raised in Texas and religion and going to church are seemingly important down here. But WTF is up with these people that they just seem to not recognize what's happening in the world is directly related to MONEY!
How much worse can that be? We accept that people are dying for lack of funds to set up systems for clean drinking water, but our government somehow places a higher priority on lobbying UN members to help us in WAR rather than use our clout to lobby support for and implementation of water and sewage infrastructure so that children won't die of freaking DIARRHEA!!!!
I think I'm more frustrated because of the news of the Pentagon report addressing global warming. It drives me nuts that there is so little attention to THAT grave and gathering threat.
Money for bombs, but not enough for education, infrastructure, healthcare, VA... and it just stays that way and gets worse. That's one thing I did like about Clinton, he had the balls to cut the defense budget. Now it's out of control again and it couldn't possibly be happening at a worse time as our environment starts to change in ways we can only estimate.
There are so many serious problems that must be faced. But day after day too many people seem to just use religion as some kind of excuse for their actions, something to make them feel better about themselves and the world as it is - rather than as a guide for their actions. Being in the South where values are supposedly so important... I look at people around me and just don't know what to do. It seems so basic, so simple.
|